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Land with a climate like Kumano, Japan

🇯🇵Kumano, Hiroshima, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Kumano, Japan are Yamaguchi, Japan (99% match), Ōzu and Shikokuchūō. About 397,000 sq mi of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hubei, China, Zhejiang, China and Anhui, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Kumano, Japan are Yamaguchi, Japan (99% match), Ōzu and Shikokuchūō. About 1.0 million km² of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hubei, China, Zhejiang, China and Anhui, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 252 frost-free days · 1,553 chill hours · 70 in rainZone 8b · 252 frost-free days · 1,553 chill hours · 1,769 mm rain

What grows in Kumano, Japan →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    41k sq mi105k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Longfeng (89), Yezhou (89)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    34k sq mi88k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (94), Deqing (87)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    33k sq mi86k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Taozhou (88), Lucheng (87)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    19k sq mi48k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Elizabeth City (89), Havelock (85)

  5. 5

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    10k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haenam (90), Yeosu (89)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    7,600 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Newport News (92), Virginia Beach (92)

  7. 7

    🇺🇸Maryland, United States

    7,300 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Salisbury (84), Easton (81)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Minamishimabara (99), Shimabara (99)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Ehime, Japan

    5,200 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Uwa (99), Ōzu (99)

  10. 10

    🇯🇵Hyōgo, Japan

    4,900 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Minamiawaji (99), Fukura (99)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

    3,500 sq mi9,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ara-dong (98), Ora-dong (98)

  12. 12

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    2,200 sq mi5,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sinhyeon (91), Kyosai (90)

Regions are states and provinces, counting land within 75 km of a town. At most three per country, so the list covers the world.

Closest towns

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    🇯🇵YamaguchiJapan

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,439 chill hours · 70 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,439 chill hours · 1,779 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵ŌzuEhime, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,385 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,385 chill hours · 1,799 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵ShikokuchūōEhime, Japan

    Zone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,389 chill hours · 68 in rainZone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,389 chill hours · 1,738 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵YokkaichiMie, Japan

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,383 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,383 chill hours · 1,700 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵MinamiawajiHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,404 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,404 chill hours · 1,452 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, garlic, fig

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵BeppuOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,534 chill hours · 77 in rainZone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,534 chill hours · 1,965 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵KashiwaraNara, Japan

    Zone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,443 chill hours · 60 in rainZone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,443 chill hours · 1,529 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, garlic

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵TsuyamaOkayama, Japan

    Zone 8a · 237 frost-free days · 1,716 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8a · 237 frost-free days · 1,716 chill hours · 1,460 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, garlic

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵SandachōHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,714 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,714 chill hours · 1,362 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, garlic

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵SōjaOkayama, Japan

    Zone 8a · 245 frost-free days · 1,517 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 8a · 245 frost-free days · 1,517 chill hours · 1,375 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, garlic

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵YukuhashiFukuoka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,223 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,223 chill hours · 1,623 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, cherry

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇯🇵MasudaShimane, Japan

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,272 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,272 chill hours · 1,688 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵HimejiHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,506 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,506 chill hours · 1,304 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, garlic

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵MatsusakaMie, Japan

    Zone 8b · 261 frost-free days · 1,299 chill hours · 74 in rainZone 8b · 261 frost-free days · 1,299 chill hours · 1,882 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵TajimiGifu, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,684 chill hours · 78 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,684 chill hours · 1,981 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇯🇵YoshinogawaTokushima, Japan

    Zone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,868 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,868 chill hours · 1,840 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇯🇵OkayamaJapan

    Zone 8b · 247 frost-free days · 1,446 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8b · 247 frost-free days · 1,446 chill hours · 1,433 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, garlic

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇯🇵GifuJapan

    Zone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,527 chill hours · 73 in rainZone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,527 chill hours · 1,853 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇯🇵HikoneShiga, Japan

    Zone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,693 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,693 chill hours · 1,653 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry

    99%match
  20. 20

    🇯🇵OwaseMie, Japan

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,283 chill hours · 80 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,283 chill hours · 2,022 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    99%match

Any town over 15,000 people, skipping those within 75 km of you. ↻ = seasons flipped across the equator.

How matching works

We compare all twelve months of average highs and lows, rain, humidity and sunshine, the same way as Climatch's places-like search, but weighted for growing: winter lows count most, since frost, chill and hardiness decide which perennials survive, then summer highs and rain. Humidity counts least.

Scores show how unusual a match this close is: 80 or better is closer than all but about 2% of random pairs of places. Across the equator seasons are lined up (↻), so a southern farm's January is compared with a northern July. Climate is only part of it: check soil, water and day length (it matters for photoperiod crops) before buying land.

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Climate data: TerraClimate 1991–2020 monthly averages (Abatzoglou, J.T. et al., 2018, Scientific Data 5:170191). Humidity is derived from TerraClimate vapor pressure; “sunshine” is solar radiation.

Places: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors, tiles by OpenFreeMap.

Grower tools: crop ranges from FAO ECOCROP and university extension guides (cited per crop). Daily weather, frost dates and chill are estimated from the monthly averages; chill portions use the Dynamic Model (Fishman, Erez & Couvillon, 1987), hardiness zones follow the USDA definition.